The article first appeared in BBC’s website on June 22, 2025.
In the winter of 1956, The Times correspondent David Holden arrived on the island of Bahrain, then still a British protectorate.
After a short-lived career teaching geography, Holden had looked forward to his Arabian posting, but he hadn’t expected to be attending a garden durbar in honour of Queen Victoria’s appointment as Empress of India.
Everywhere that he went in the Gulf – Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Oman – he found expected traces of British India…
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